beloved.

[glowbelly]

this is the thread about the book that makes me cry every time i read it.

i don't know where this thread is going, but i like the first 2 sentences of the book. they follow:

124 was spiteful. full of a baby's venom.

[glowbelly]

ok listen up, nerds

this book is amazing and i DARE YOU TO READ IT DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU COME ON THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT I'M PULLIN OUT THE STOPS NOW

TRIPLE DOG DARE.

[kahljorn]

so... who is the author of this beloved book of yours?

i dont like the first line because babies don't have venom they have candied souls so it doesn't make sense and also what kind of a jerk thinks that babies are full of venom that just really makes me angry

[executioneer]

man you don't know much about babies they are 94% poison just ask a doctor

its a survival thing that evolved like the monarch butterlfy's toxicity only more deadly

[glowbelly]

toni morrison, kahl, and i really think you'd like this book a lot.

and seriously, yo, babies can get so friggin angry that the ooze venom and it takes all the strenghth you have not to want to throw them out the window at 3:30 in the morning after waking you up for the seventh time because YOU DON'T KNOW WHY YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD IT FIGURED OUT THE SIXTH TIME BUT WAH WAH WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH YOU DIDN'T DEAL WITH IT

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

Glad you like Beloved, but it's pretty high up on my literary dislikes meter. Wasn't it an Oprah book?

[kahljorn]

Oooh, Toni Morrison is a kind of good author. I recently read the Bluest eye by her. It was banned in the county I live in because parents were afraid it would make their kids have incestual/pedophile relationships because the book depicts the act and the resulting insanity and life problems in such a good light. (it was the reading assignment in an 11th grade honors class, which is how the problem came up)
:sarcasm
Some christian guy actually got voted into the board of education because of it, "THIS IS A TRAVESTY! CHRISTIAN NATION UNITE -- VOTE IN THE JACKASS"

a lot of stuff by toni morrison is on the Oprah list.

I'm reading Tales from the underground by Dostoevsky, that book is awesome -- so far.

so what are the symptoms of being bitten by a baby exactly? TIREDNESS? SWELLING OF THE BREASTS? LONLINESS, FRUSTRATION, ANXIETY? CHANGINGPOOPYDIAPERITIS?

[glowbelly]

i hate oprah's list because everybody always associates good books that are on her list as bad books just because her name is plastered on the cover of it.

beloved won the pulitzer way before oprah put her stamp on it. one hundred years of solitude won the nobel prize before she stamped that one, too.

mr. p? did you read beloved? if you don't like it, fair enough...but i hope you aren't writing it off just because oprah likes it. something tells me you aren't that big of a dumb-dumb. AT LEAST I'M HOPING YOU AREN'T, SIR.

[kahljorn]

i was going to say something about that but i didnt want to be a jerk FOR ONCE